Agriculture Episodes

Follow the beef money trail in 150 seconds. Beef producers doing it tough, supermarkets making huge beef profits, while cost of living increases smash their customers. Using basic economic principles to provide an insightful cut through of Australia's beef situation guaranteed to make you the instant expert.

Foot & Mouth Disease in 75 seconds. A 75 second 'cheat note' great for dinner party conversation, impressing your boss...or anyone else! Foot & Mouth Disease is widespread in Bali, on Australia's door step. Tourists can unwittingly bring FMD back into Australia. Why not close the border with Bali? What are the economic ramifications if Australia gets one case. Will our meat export market evaporate overnight? Will our livestock industry crash? Burgernomics host Ross MacDowell provides the answers...

A 50 second 'cheat note' guide by Ross MacDowell, why Australia steak and beef is the most expensive beef prices in the world. Great for business meetings, dinners parties or whenever you need just a little bit of knowledge to get you through. Want to know more? Please listen to the Burgernomics podcast, Why Australian Steaks Are The Most Expensive In The World. Out Now. Please subscribe and review the Burgernomics podcast.

If Australia is the ‘land of plenty’ why do we pay more for our steaks than every other major country? Is it droughts, corporate farm buy outs, supermarket profiteering, the Aussie dollar or is Australia feeding the rest of the world before our own domestic market? Rob Clayton, Managing Director Nutrien Ag Solutions runs one of Australia’s largest agriculture businesses. Rob joins Ross MacDowell to cut through the myths and theories behind Australia's high beef prices to describe the battle b...